Art Nouveau Buildings in Riga. A Guide to Architecture of Art Nouveau MetropolisDates:01/09/2050-01/01/2999The book is a richly illustrated, comprehensive bilingual (Latvian / English) guide on Art Nouveau architecture of Riga. 210 buildings representing various trends inside Art Nouveau – Eclectically Decorative Art Nouveau, “Perpendicular” Art Nouveau, National Romanticism, and Neo-classicist influenced rational Art Nouveau – are analysed in the book. It consists of 5 chapters corresponding to location of buildings in the city, and 5 maps help to find them and make an individual route for every visitor himself. Each building is displayed on two facing pages of the book, and all the building descriptions include general information, photos of the building and its most characteristic details, plans and façade drawings either specially drawed or photographed from archive materials. Descriptions are supplemented with brief information on other 78 similar buildings to be found in the city. A general introduction on urban development of Riga and art processes in the city at the turn of the 19th and 20th century is also provided in the introduction, while at the end of the book there is an index of all the buildings mentioned in the book, and index of persons including biographies of 41 most outstanding architects of the Art Nouveau time.

Art Nouveau Decorative Designs - ebookDates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999This edition includes three artists with a focus on the more obscure French artists, MP Verneuil and Georges Auriol. Alfons Maria Mucha designs are included and, if you love Mucha, you will love Verneuil and Auriol's designs.

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Art nouveau en projet - Art Nouveau in progressDates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999Centered on the same theme as the exhibition “Art Nouveau in Progress”, this international colloqium examined the ways in which the Art Nouveau heritage has been promoted throughout the 20th century. It retraces the history of its gradual rediscovery and emphasizes the current problems involved in its preservation and presentation. A wide range of European examples will serves to illustrate the fate of this heritage, which is still in jeopardy or currently benefitting from processes of restoration and transformation.

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Art nouveau en projet/Art Nouveau in progress - Exhibitions catalogueDates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999This publication accompanies the travelling exhibition "Art Nouveau in Progress". It presents case studies from different cities within the Network, covering three chosen themes of "Visions", "Disappearance" and "Regeneration". Published in two bilingual editions: English - French, French - Dutch.

Art Nouveau European RouteDates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999This publication is a compilation of the best architecture and other art works produced by artists and designers at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Including more than 500 images, selected by the over 100 cities and institutions comprising the Art Nouveau European Route, it will take you on a fascinating journey to discover this “new art” that shone brightly a century ago and today constitutes a common, priceless human heritage.

The Réseau Art Nouveau Network, as a network of cities aiming to preserve, study and promote Art Nouveau at a European scale, organizes the final symposium of its European project Art Nouveau & Ecology supported by the Culture programme 2007-2013 of the European Commission.

This one-day symposium Art Nouveau in Europe: visions and revisions will take place on 20 March 2015 at the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana.

Three international keynote speakers will talk on the past, present and future of Art Nouveau.
They will then exchange experience, knowledge and visions with Art Nouveau experts and professionals from the Network as well as with the audience during a round table.

The morning session will be followed by the presentation of results of the European project Art Nouveau & Ecology and the future challenges of the Network.
To conclude the final event, Penelope Denu, official representative of the European Institute of Cultural Routes, will officially award the RANN with the certification of the Cultural Route of the Council of Europe.

Art Nouveau in Romania Dates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999Art Nouveau was a movement widespread in Europe, crisscrossing the continent from Scotland to Transylvania, from Finland to Spain, and was prominent from the 1880s up until the 1920s, producing artefacts in every artistic field. Although it was a pan-European phenomenon, the very plethora of its names is suggestive of its regionalist features: in Frances it was called "Art Nouveau" or "Le Modern Style", in Germany "Die Jugendstil", in Austria and Hungary "Sezession", in Spain "Arte joven", in Italy "Arte nuova", in the Netherlands "Nieuwe kunst", in Scotland the "Glasgow Style", and in Poland "Mloda Polska". Every country had its own version of Art Nouveau, and within the national versions there were local variants. Thus the movement was by no means a homogenous phenomenon, and is to be identified more with a period than with a style.

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Art Nouveau in TbilisiDates:01/09/2050-01/01/2999A new Georgian-English publication entitled 'Art Nouveau in Tbilisi', was published by the City of Tbilisi. This exhaustive guide indexes most of Art Nouveau buildings in Tbilisi, including photos of the façades and a city map.

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Art Nouveau JewelryDates:01/01/2050-01/01/2999Jewelry was one of the purest, and most successful, expressions of Art Nouveau style, using sensuous organic forms to create a vast range of objects of exceptional beauty and inventiveness. Leading expert Vivienne Becker provides an account of the movement that spread through Europe and the United States, acquiring different decorative characteristics in England, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Russia and Spain.
For the collector, comprehensive biographies on more than 300 designers are included, followed by a guide to identification, with over 200 makers’ marks and signatures. Each part of the book is richly illustrated with plate sections of dramatic illustrations, from the sinuous elegance of the French masters - Vever, Lalique and Fouquet - to the linear, geometric designs of the Viennese - Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser.
30.20 x 22.60 cm
Paperback
240pp
456 Illustrations, 156 in colour
and 214 makers' marks
First published 1998